World-leading fossil expert Chris Stringer guides us through latest evidence on fossils, Denisovans and DNA from China

The PaM usually distributes a flyer showing PaM sessions at the EAA meetings. The flyer is virtual this year. Please scroll down to read all the information, or click the links to go directly to a …

The Middle Palaeolithic of southwest Asia witnessed interactions and knowledge sharing between archaic and modern humans ~130,000–80,000 years ago. These interactions led to increased behavioural comp...

Scientific Reports - Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave

Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

After years of mystery, we now know what at least one Denisovan looked like.

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

The PaM Community was founded to be a member-led community and we want you to help shape our future directions. This community is very new and our ways of communicating will evolve as we find our f…

The Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 2025: Landscape connectivity in Prehistory will be held at the University of Reading on Saturday 7th June 2025. This year the conference honours the achieveme...

You can submit your abstract for EAA2025 at the EAA2025 website by the 6th of February. The PaM discussion session for EAA2025 is session #250: Sink the NASTIES? Named Stone Tool Industries (NASTIE…